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🌈 THE LIGHT IS HERE 🌈
AND, it’s been an especially difficult lead up to Pride in the Park this year. Between a smaller leadership team, reduced funds & increased community unmet needs; we’ve done our very best for you Kitchener, Waterloo & Cambridge. With humility, we know we haven’t done everything as well as we wish. Despite that, we think we’ve poured our entire selves, hearts, souls, time & wallets into honouring 30 years of tri-city Pride. We wanted to share a short behind the scenes video to give you a glimpse into the journey to today!
The weather has turned in our favour and we can’t wait to celebrate, protest, and gather with you in a few moments.
With you, in darkness & in light, to the best of our abilities! Thank you for being here with us!
Gratitude to Aubrey for stitching this video together for us!
Together, we shine! 🤎
06/06/2026
GOOD MORNING KITCHENER, WATERLOO & CAMBRIDGE! ITS PRIDE DAY!
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As we do the finishing touches in the park; we felt it important to share who your 2026 SUMMERFEST team is! For a while now we’ve been feeling like it’s critical that our community knows who we are - as people and as your neighbours, friends, family members and colleagues. Many seem to think that tri-Pride Board Members are paid staff and have the capacity of employees. We’re flattered but you should know that this organization has always been held up by volunteers. From our small and mighty volunteer board to the community members that support in bringing events to life — for almost 30 years, tri-Pride has been volunteer run and grassroots oriented.
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Meet the volunteer board members that devote their evenings and weekends to local Pride organizing because Pride is identity; Pride is our stories of pain and becoming. Pride is our practice of hope, solidarity, and connection. This team starts planning for SUMMERFEST back in December from inviting sponsors that enable us to offer a free space to our community to filing permits, engaging talent, mobilizing community and so much more.
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Also meet the artists and creatives who have shared countless hours, materials, talents, and space with us to bring our vision of THE LIGHT IS COMING to life in the space.
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You can find your tri-Pride team on Saturday in tri-Pride shirts and Melissa and Mandy with cameras wrapped around them running around! Say hi, share your gratitude and offer your support wherever possible. We can’t wait to see you, meet you and celebrate with you!
Photography by our very own Kamil. As you can see, we all wear lots of hats!
06/05/2026
🏳️🌈🤎 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR PRIDE IN THE PARK 2026 🤎🏳️🌈
With just 1 sleep till Pride in the Park, SUMMERFEST 2026 - YEAR 30, our tireless volunteer Board is incredibly proud to share your 2026 PRIDE CARE GUIDE.
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In response to and with recognition of important questions and calls to action from community locally and globally; our team has engaged in deep reflection and been practicing consistent intention to present Pride with care, commitment, and transparent communication.
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We invite all to review, sit with, share, and honour all that is in this guide in anticipation of a day of JOY + RESISTANCE inspired by an embodiment of our theme, THE LIGHT IS COMING!
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In this guide you’ll find a letter from our President & Chair of the Board, Lucas welcoming you to Pride, the FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE, details on venue specs, notes on parking & inclement weather, our positions on Pride as a protest and more!
THE LIGHT IS COMING
06. 06. 2026
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